From Darwin to Darware: Why computer engineers have started listening to Mother (Nature)
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rent engineering capabilities. Nature is the grandest engineer known to man-though a blind one at that: her designs come into existence through the slow process, over millions of years, known as evolution by natUral selection [2]. As put forward by Charles Darwin in his 1859 masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, evolution is based on "...one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." [1].
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